Cream Cheese vs Butter: All Nutritional Differences

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Less Calories in Cream cheese

At first glance, you can see that in cream cheese is much less calories than in butter.

Cream cheese has 350 kcal per 100g and butter 717 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 105%.

In cream cheese and in butter most calories came from fat.

See tables below to compare cream cheese with butter in details.

Cream cheese And Butter Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  butter - 105% more than cream cheese
• Carbohydrates:
  cream cheese - 9100% more than butter
• Fat:
  butter - 136% more than cream cheese
• Protein:
  cream cheese - 624% more than butter
• Water:
  cream cheese - 225% more than butter

More protein in cream cheese

It is aslo easy to see see that in cream cheese is more protein than in butter.

There is 0.85g per 100g of butter and 6.15g per 100g of cream cheese so using simple math we can see that difference is about 624%.

More carbohydrates in cream cheese

In cream cheese is more carbohydrates than in butter.

There is 0.06g/100g of carbohydrates in butter and 5.52g/100g in cream cheese so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 9100%.

Less fat in cream cheese

In cream cheese is less fats than in butter.

The tables above show us that there is 81.11g/100g of fats in butter and 34.44g/100g in cream cheese. In this case difference is about 136%.